# 🎉 Node-RED 2.1.0-beta.1 released

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-2-1-0-beta-1-released/51963>\
**Category:** News\
**Created:** [7 October 2021 10:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-2-1-0-beta-1-released/51963 "2021-10-07T10:17:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [7 October 2021 15:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-2-1-0-beta-1-released/51963/2 "2021-10-07T15:27:51Z")

</div>

As always, some very nice things in there. 😀

I like the welcome guide - is that something that custom node authors could use?

Not really had time to play yet but a very minor (possibly non-) issue:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/d/2/d211425f873a4fa133e260d89c39fb17477193fa.png)  
If you have a long Node name, it throws the alignment out in the tree-list.

And one request for a future enhancement - Now that we have evn vars for tabs and groups (nice!), it would be even nicer if the vars were listed in the info bar:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/7/c/7c15c77c55fde7b38dfddb9e6ff37285ba87bb13.png)  
Like settings are for nodes:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/8/e/8ecefe0b39e20c001adca21304543ab5c7ae0a90.png)

And I note that subflows don't include the env vars in the info bar either so it might be nice to have them there as well.

* * *

OK, I know I'm being pedantic now but I wonder whether it might be a good idea to add env vars to projects as well? There is already a project settings panel so it might be easy enough to do and could be very handy for some people.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-2-1-0-beta-1-released/51963)._